Re: Laundry list

Understand completely. But potting up for one's self can also get to be
heavy lifting. We bumped some Phoenix dactylifera from 1-gallon pot to
7-gallon pot today, plus any number of smaller plants and rooted
cuttings into larger pots.

We've also got some 3-foot tall bamboo palm [Chamaedora species]
seedlings in one of the seed beds that we've got to pot up next
weekend. It's probably going to be a real adventure getting those
babies out of the seed bed.

And this reminds me--I've got a dozen or so rooted cuttings of Carissa
macrocarpa that I'll be happy to send to anyone who wants them. Thorny
devils, but the flowers have wonderful fragrance.

On Sunday, May 16, 2004, at 05:28 PM, Kitty wrote:

It seems like the more I get done, the more I add things to my laundry
list. I just potted up 60 two inch pots to qts for our MG nursery.
I'd like
to get caught up on all the MG stuff so I can get to my own.

The only hold-overs of any consequence are two golden barrel cactuses
that need to have their pot size jumped [something I find easy to put
off] and a 15-gallon kumquat that needs a permanent home in the
ground.

The kumquat has been our Christmas tree for the last 3 years [it's
loaded with bright orange fruit at that time of year, so it
self-decorating], but it's beginning to outgrow its pot and I'm
getting
too old to wrestle a 30-gallon pot in and out of the house.

I'm sure that by next weekend, the list will be longer. We still have
to rip out an aging hibiscus and then find something else to block the
evening sun from the sunroom.

I know, I know--if it's a sunroom, why block the sun? Because summer
is
coming and if we don't block the sun, it will be a life-size toaster
over.